Frasi di Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson è stato uno scrittore statunitense, autore di romanzi di fantascienza.

Ha pubblicato alcuni dei suoi primi racconti con gli pseudonimi di A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge e Winston P. Sanders. Anderson è stato inoltre autore di libri fantasy, come ad esempio la serie King of Ys. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Novembre 1926 – 31. Luglio 2001
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“On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.”

Poul Anderson libro The High Crusade

Origine: The High Crusade (1960), p. 131

“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”

Poul Anderson libro La spada spezzata

Origine: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)

“You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.”

"Garden in the Void" (1952)
Short fiction

“You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?”

Poul Anderson libro La spada spezzata

Origine: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 11 (p. 70)

“I walk beyond town, many of these nights, to stand under the high autumnal stars, look upward and wonder.”

Poul Anderson libro There Will Be Time

Origine: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 176; closing words)

“Another irritating thing about Naqsans was their habit of solemnly repeating the obvious. In that respect they were almost as bad as humans.”

Poul Anderson libro The Star Fox

Section 2 “Arsenal Port”, Chapter III (p. 90)
The Star Fox (1965)

“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”

"The Fatal Fulfillment" (Short Story), March 1970. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Short fiction

“Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.”

Poul Anderson libro There Will Be Time

Variante: Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.
Origine: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 30)

“Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.”

Poul Anderson libro Brain Wave

Origine: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 82)

“Holger wished he had read the old tales more closely; he had only a dim childhood recollection of them.”

Poul Anderson libro Three Hearts and Three Lions

Origine: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 10 (p. 88)

“As evil waxes, the very men who stand for good will in their fear use ever worse means o’ fighting, and thereby give evil a free beachhead.”

Poul Anderson libro Three Hearts and Three Lions

Origine: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)

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